I wish I could say I’m on the team. I typically stay up, but had a few strange crashes in the past.
Riding through a small town in spain, past a restaurant - guy sitting on front steps spills a bucket of potatoes he was peeling all over the road. I find myself on the ground in no time at all. Free lunch at restaurant.
On same trip, pack of 16 riders is moving along at a good clip through the country side - chicken decides to find out the answer to the ageless question. She finds out the answer is to get run over by a pack of 16 riders and take out the last guy. No free chicken lunch for me. The chicken actually survived, but probably didn’t lay any more eggs that day.
Went over the bars hoping up on the sidewalk right in front of my house. Neighbour’s kids thought I was Evil Kneivel.
I wouldn’t think anyone would want to reply to this. You’re just asking for trouble by jinxing yourself. For the record, I offer a “no comment.”
Nah. I’ve been saying this for years. No jinx.
It just means you’re not trying hard enough, Ken.
Actually, it means I’m hyperaware of the road surface and surrounding bikes/cars/wildlife, and I’ve been really lucky. Had a guy go down right in front of me in a road race; I rode over both of his wheels since I didn’t have time to go around him. Saw a diagonal gouge in a road just in time to bunny-hop it; at 25+mph, that woulda hurt.
I got hit by a car in 1986 and that’s the last time I went down (except for that time I was bar hopping by bike and hit a curb after our 4th stop but that shouldn’t count).
I’ve had alot of close calls have become convinced I have superior handling skills and a 6th sense for avoiding trouble which means I am surely heading for a fall soon . . . .
I mentioned something along those lines at the end of a group ride a couple years. Two weeks later I broke my collar bone falling off my bike leaving T1 during a race.
There are two types of cyclists. Those who have crashed and those that will. I say wait a little longer. You’ll join the larger team.